A high school basketball court is 84 feet long and 50 feet wide. What is the diagonal length of the court?

Question

8801 views around the world

You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License

Answer 1 · 2018-04-24T06:16:49

The diagonal side (the hypotenuse of a triangle) will be written as #c#.

#c^2 = a^2 +b^2#

#c^2 = 84^2 + 50^2#

#c^2 = 7056 + 2500#

#c^2 = 9556#

So

#c ~~ "97.755 ft"#

enter image source here